Talk Morocco

The recent targeting in Morocco of news organizations like Aljazeera and the clampdown on the independent press, have seriously limited the scope of freedom of expression in the country. Internet has grown more and more critical in helping people get access to unfiltered news. For some, the whisleblowing website Wikileaks, is a vindication of investigative [...]

The drop-by-drop cable leakage down the WikiLeaks pipeline appears as the most telling form for exposing government measures increasingly executed in one-drop increments and by stealth under the cover of the War on Terror. In a leaked 2007 cable from the embassy in Spain, US expressed concern over the threat of Islamist terrorist attacks in [...]

Information and communications technology and the publishing tools associated with it, are changing the face of the world. Arab regimes go on censoring and arresting people who were expressing an opinion or disseminating an information on the Internet. They still don’t get it. They think they live in some medieval ivory tower. But, as it [...]

No one has ever shaken the world of electronic journalism as did the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange. The man has published an unimaginable amount of political scandals about world leaders in a flood of information and classified documents. This is indeed the epitome of a new era of investigative journalism.

A colleague of mine was far more eloquent than I am going to be on the subject of Wikileaks: sensational stuff, but nothing we did not know before, and no immediate threat to the stability of the incumbent regime. Still, that maybe due to the fact that our little web community -very loosely defined, I [...]

“Good news” commented US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by British police on a European warrant issued by Sweden for rape charges.
The idea that came to mind soon after I learned about Julian Assange’s arrest was that the United States and its allies have once again tried to [...]

One of the most remarkable events of the year 2010 was the publication of thousands of american secret documents by the whistle-blower Wikileaks.
In the latest delivery were published thousands of the State Department cables in which are reported a lot about the gossips and assessments by US diplomats of world leaders and their policies. A [...]

Quarter of a million of leaks! This is why everybody was excited on Twitter on Sunday… Like children discovering that their parents do have sex to make a baby… A friend of mine said “this will change the course of history”…
I personally found the show a bit funny Sunday evening: people excited by the idea [...]

As I pointed in a another post, I am not enthusiast to Wikileaks and to social media benefits in the region. I come from MENA region, but I feel the need to write my reaction on how people and especially official mainstream media are dealing with Wikileaks content.
Let us start with this flash from Maghreb [...]